MEAP Preparation - Grade 6 Mathematics2.11 Percents

Percent (or percentage) means "out of 100." We use the percent symbol (%) as a way to write a fraction with a common denominator of 100.

For example, instead of saying "50 out of every 100 students are girls," we say "50% of students are girls."

Example: 50% is shown as a partial shading of a grid as:

A percent can always be written as a decimal, and a decimal can be written as a percent, by moving the decimal point two places to the right like this:

Finding the Percent of a Number:Example: Find 50% of 20.
Multiply the number by the percent (e.g. 20 x 50 = 1000)
Divide the answer by 100 (Move decimal point two places to the left) (e.g. 1000/100 = 10). If the answer is in a decimal point, round it to the desired precision (e.g. 59.16 may be rounded to the nearest whole number = 59)